Filamentous Fungi [Paperback]

This volume is an international compilation for biotechnologists of data on the location and use of filamentous fungi.This volume is an international compilation for biotechnologists of data on the location and use of filamentous fungi. The volume provides details of the location and scope of major culture collections around the world holding fungi; information on how to access their data, administration and safety, identification, culture and media recipes, preservation, patents, specialist services and international organization.This volume is an international compilation for biotechnologists of data on the location and use of filamentous fungi. The volume provides details of the location and scope of major culture collections around the world holding fungi; information on how to access their data, administration and safety, identification, culture and media recipes, preservation, patents, specialist services and international organization.This book presents data on the use and location of filamentous fungi for biotechnologists. The addresses and scope of all of the major fungi-holding collections are detailed, together with information on how to access the data, administration and safety, identification, culture and media recipes, patents, preservation, specialist services, and other international organisations. The authors are all international authorities who have combined with the resource centers to provide this unique source book.Contributors; Series introduction; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Resource centres D. L. Hawksworth; 2. Information resources M. I. Krichevsky, B.-O. Fabricius and H. Sugawara; 3. Administration and safety D. L. Hawksworth and K. Allner; 4. Culture and preservation D. Smith; 5. Identification D. L. Hawksworth; 6. Patent protection for biotechnological inventions I. J. Bousfield; 7. Culture collection services D. Allsopp and F. P. Simione; 8. Organisation of resource centres B. E. Kirsop and E. J. DaSilva; Appendix: media A. H. S.lC>